 Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th...  Southern Quarterly Review - Pagina 452geredigeerd door - 1844Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pagina’s
...Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ"d Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appealed Less than arch-angel ruin'd,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pagina’s
...By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread Commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd,... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pagina’s
...By Fontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Tbeir dread Commander : he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd,... | |
 | 1810 - 570 pagina’s
...occupied, and our wonder entirely absorbed, by this superlative object; which, like Milton's Satan, ------- Above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." * An account of its dimensions and form will afford you the best idea of the impression produced... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pagina’s
...up to a greater sublimity, than that wherein hi^ person is described in those celebrated lines : • He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r, &c. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pagina’s
...up to a greater sublimity, than that «herein bis person is described in those celebrated line,: 4 He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower, Нес.' His sentiments are every way answerable to hicharacter, and suitable to a created being... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pagina’s
...Since first I • How far superior to this is the grand and sublime de•cription of Satan by Milton. " he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All its orig-'nal brightness, norappear'd Less than archangel ruin'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pagina’s
...dread commander : he, above the rest In sk-ipe and gesture proudly eminent, 590 Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and Ihe excess Of glory' obscur'd : as when the sun, new tiien, Looks through the horizontal misty air... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1813 - 296 pagina’s
...following noted deseription of Satan, afler his fall, appearing at the head of his infernal hosts : -He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 'Stood, like a tower ; his form had not vot lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than arehangel ruiu'd,... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pagina’s
...inimitably grand on the contrary, is his comparison of the Arch-deceiver to Sun eclipsed ! •• i he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of... | |
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